Game-ball and method of making same.



N0. 695,53. Patented Mar. u, I902.

. H. HOYT.

GAME BALL A ETHOD OF MAKING SAME.

(Application filegi Mar. 22, 1901.) 4

(No Model.)

f INVENTOR AimRNEYs NITED SAE \VILLIAM II. IIOYT, OF WYOMING, NEWJERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE BURT arrant tries.

COMPANY, OF MILBURN, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATIONOF NEW JERSEY.

GAME-BALL AND METHOD OF AKING' SAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 695,153, dated March11, 1902. I Application filed March 22, 1901. Serial No. 52,272. (Nomodel.)

To rtZZ whom it may concern..-

Be it known that- I,WILLIAM H. HOYT,a citizen of the UnitedStates,residing at Wyoming, Essex county, State of New Jersey, have in-.5 vented certain new and useful Improvements; in Game-Balls and Methodsof Making the Same, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to game-balls and the manufacture thereof. p

In the accompanying drawingslhave shown a game-ball embodying myinvention. a

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a face view of the body of the ball beforethe final forming or integrating pressure has been given and showing therecess for the spot. Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3is a similar view of the ball, showing the spot set in place. Fig. 4 isa section on line 4 4 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a face view of the spot; Fig.6 is a sectional side view of the spot, the section being taken on line6 6 of Fig. 5; and Fig. 7 is a sectional view similar to Fig. 4, showingthe finished ball.

In the drawings, a represents the body of the ball, made of plasticmaterial, herein shown as spherical, andhaving the recess 11 therein forthe spot a, with a central inwardlyextendingsocket b. This spotis hereinshown as a disk-like body having a fluted or non-circular outline andrecessed to form the number. This spot-is adapted to fit looselyin the'recessb. I w

In carrying out my process I first form the body a of plastic. material,preferably cold, and insert therein the spot 0, which has been formedupcold from plastic material. The socket b and the space betweenthebottom and wall of the recess 6 and the spot are filled in withloose'granular or pulverulent plastic material 11, and the number-recess inthe spot is likewise filled in with plastic ma terial d. .The materialwhich fills the'sock'et 1) forms a spur d. I prefer that the ball-body,

the spot, and the plastic filling should be of contrastin g colors ortints. For instance, the body of the ball shown is red,the spot white,and the plastic filling black. After the ball has been built up, asdescribed and as shown in Fig. at, it is compressed under great pressureand at a considerable temperature, preferably about 250 Fahrenheit, andis trued The ball thus- I 1. As a new and useful article of manufac=tnr, a gamesball composed of a body of plastic material and a spot setin said a body and having its side surface fluted longitudinally.

2. The process of producing game-balls,

which consists in forming a body of plastic material by pressure,forming a spot of plastic material by pressurefl inv a cold' state,insorting the spot into a recess of the body with an interposed layer ofloose comminnted plastic substance and integrating the spot, body andinterposed layer by heat and pressure.

.3. As a new and useful article of manufac= ture, a game-ball composedof a body of com pressed plastic material and a solid spot the exposedsurface of which has a non-circular outline said spot being inserted inand united to the body'to formam integral whole. t

c W. H. HUYT.

Witnesses: 81511). E. Morten,

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